Pursue Your Purpose

Commencement ceremonies were held May 14 at the county fairgrounds for the Kent State Columbiana County campuses, acknowledging all the hard work of students and faculty, especially after a challenging year of living through a pandemic. 

Kent State University at Salem recently recognized two employees for exemplary teaching and service to the campus for the 2020-2021 academic year.

As seventh graders, 15 local students were directed to the Rising Scholars program (formerly known as the Rural Scholars program) because their teachers detected something special in each of them. Now, six years later, they are each ready to move onto the next phase of their lives: college, trade school, the workplace following completion of the Kent State Columbiana County Rising Scholars program.

There was no way the COVID pandemic was going to keep a group of students and faculty members from doing something they really wanted to accomplish this past academic year: publishing a literary journal to showcase the creative talents on the Salem Campus.